Rapture Fever

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to what you are doing, you are going to have to start defending
your own point of view and giving us solid reasons for giving
credence to what you are doing. I find this strangely lacking in
your literature.
This is a very strange statement from a representative of a
theological position that has produced nothing new since
Charles Ryrie’s Disjxmsationalism Today (1965), from a professor
at the seminary that unceremoniously fired Ryrie over a decade
ago. Misrepresentations, if they really are misrepresentations,
are quite easy to prove. All it takes is a published, book-length
response with line-by-line refutations. I offer as a fine example
Bahnsen and Gentry’s House Divided. They took apart the accusations
of Dr. House and Rev. Ice, piece by piece. But academic
dispensationalists have refused to respond to our supposed misrepresentations,
except for Dr. House, and then (mysteriously)
he was no longer on the Dallas Seminary faculty. Eventually
the younger faculty members learn a lesson: publicly defend
the system from its critics, and you will find yourself unemployed.
It is prudent to remain silent. And so they do.
Rapture Fkver is my response to my challenger’s accusation. If
dispensational scholars have the material, and also have the
willingness to enter into a public debate with me in the form of
a series of books like this one, they should do so. Gentlemen, it
really isn’t very difficult to respond if you have done your
homework. But when the intellectual representatives of a 160year-old
theological movement can muster only one booklength
response in a decade - Dominion Theology: Blessing or
Curse? - and then the men who offered it subsequently fail to
answer the immediate book-length rebuttal - House Divided - a
perceptive observer is tempted to conclude: “They just don’t
have the firepower! They are out of ammo.” Indeed, they are.
Perhaps the Dallas professor who initiated the challenge will
review Rapture Fever in Bibliotheca ~ama. Or perhaps he will
prudently remain silent. One thing is sure: he will not write a